Art of rug-weaving and the product resulting therefrom



v D. H. STROUD, Jn. ART OF RUG WEAVING AND THE PRODUCT RESULTING THEREFROM.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-25, 1919.

Patented Oct. 25, 1921..

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PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID E. STROUD, J'B., 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 25, 1921.

Application filed January 25, 1919. Serial 'No. 273,019.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID H. STROUD, J r., a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Art of Rugeaving and the Product Resulting Therefrom, whereof the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The invention is directed to an improved method of rug weaving, and more particu larly to the formation of integral fringes and edgings in multiply structures in which more than one set or class of warps is employed and an ornamental design is produced in a surface layer of chenille or other appropriate material. The invention is also directed to the textile structure manufactured according to this improved method.

While integral fringes have been heretofore produced in certain rug structures, by simply severing the binding warps'at short distances from the edges of the body portions, this procedure has not been adapted to the particular class of rugs above referred to, since in these the binding warps must necessarily be of dark colors so as not to be visible upon the face of the rug to interfere with the combinationand arrangement of the colors of thechenille weft to form the predetermined pattern or design. A dark colored fringe is invariably objectionable in contrasting too severely with many varieties of color schemes. especially in oriental pattern imitations, which necessitate fringes of light colors, usually white.

In order to'overcome these objections, I avoid employing the ends of the dark colored binder warps as fringes and instead employ or introduce a special series of warps of light color (preferably white), which I term for convenience, stufl'er warps. These are inlaid in the body portion of the rug among its interwovenseries of wefts and binder warps and by a novel method of completing the said bodyportion, I am enabled to expose the ends of these stufier warps as fringes.

I have hereinafter set forth in detail the best embodiment and mode of practising my invention at present known to me, while I have indicated the scope and essentials of the invention in my claims.

Figure I, is a diagrammatic illustration, in longitudinal section, of a rug structure woven according to my improved method.

Fig. II, is a similar view illustrating the turning over and sewing of a terminal strip to form an edging for the fringe. 1

As herein shown, the rug proper consists of a compound weave indicated at 1, involvmg the chenille wefts 2, appearing upon the face of the fabric, as is usual in rugs of this class; an intermediate layer of stuffer wefts 3, of comparatively thick yarn, serving chiefly for padding purposes; and a third layer of backing wefts 4. The stuffer wefts 3, are lnterposed between the stuffer warps 5, and 6, which latter are themselves interlaid between and separate the weft layers 2 and a. These stufier warps 5 and 6, together with the three layers of wefts al ready described, are bound into a unified structure by the binder warps 7, and 8. It is to be noted that the stutter warps 5, and 6, are merely laid into the structure, and serve therein principally as separating strata for the three weft layers.

The textile structure thus far described with its two classes of warps (binder warps and stuffer warps), forms no part of the present invention, and, therefore, need not be further described herein.

The improvement to which my invention is directed, begins at the point at which the main body portion of the rug (comprising the design) has been completed through the properly ordered laying of the chenille weft in the well known way. After the stage above referred to has been reached, the weaving proceeds with the formation of a compounded structure as before, except for certain substitutions as follows:

In place of the chenille weft, a facing weft 11, is employed, and a comparatively thinner yarn 13, is preferably used for the stuifer wefts. The backing weft 4, is employed the same as before. These three yarns are preferably of the same weight, and are. thrown across for about a dozen picks. This portion of the fabric is closely woven and serves as an effective means for securely locking the previous figured weave against unraveling. Upon the completion of the retaining strip or edging 10 of the rug body as just described, weaving proceeds with one class of warps only, and with the omission of the substituted stuffer weft 13, and the backing weft 4,resul ting as a consequence, in a simple interweaving of the binder warps 7 and 8, with the facing wefts 11, only, to the exclusion of the stufi'er warps and an attendant isolating of the V stufi'er warps so as to leave them uninterlaid and loose beyond the body POIUOII of the rug. After the completion of a strip 20, of this simple weave, which is preferably twice as wide as the intermediate retaining strip 10, the warps, 5, 6, 7, and 8, are severed along a common transverse line, the section 20, doubled upon itself and laid over or turned back upon the intermediate section 10, and finally permanently. united or secured thereto in retroverted position to form a fringe edging 30, by machine stitching, as indicated at 3l31, or in any other convenient manner. The ends of the stuffer warps 5, and 6, are thus left loose and exposed beyond the said edging, and appear as fringe. i V

While'I have described the sequence of the various stages of the process, in the order in which they occur for finishing one end of the rug, it is, of course, to be understood that A v a similar procedure in reverse order is practised in forming fringe at the other end of the rug. i

In accordance with the illustrations,the strands which constitute the fringe extend longitudinally through the entire woven rug bodycoextensively with the binder warp and are securely incorporated through being thereby bound together with the other elements of the structure. so as to be absolutely proof against unraveling or dissection during the ordinary course of usage.

While I have shown and described-my invention as particularly advantageous in ru weaving, it is, of course, to beunderstood that I do not wish to be thus limited, since the same procedure may be resorted to inthe production of other textile fabrics or structures, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus. described my invention, I

claim 1. A rug having a woven .body portion comprising interwoven series of wefts and binder warps with stuifer warps inlaid therein coextensively with said binder warps, and a woven edging'comprising wefts interwoven with one class of the aforesaid warps to the exclusion of the rest.

2. A rug having a woven bodyportion comprising interwoven series of wefts and binder warps with stuffer warps inlaid there- 'in coextensively withsaid binder warps a fringe comprising ends of said stufi'er warps extending loose beyond the edge of said woven body portion; and a woven edging comprising wefts interwoven with said binder warps to the exclusion of said stuffer warps.

3. A chenille fabric having a woven body comprising interwoven seriesof wefts and the edge of said woven body portion; and a woven edging comprising wefts interwoven with said binder warps to the exclusion of said 'stuifer warps secured in retroverted position upon said body.

5. A method of manfacturing an edged fabricwhich comprises interweaving binder warps with a plurality of layers of wefts separated by interlaid stuffer warps, in forming the body of the fabric; and interweaving wefts with one class of the aforesaid warps to the exclusion of the rest in forming the edging.

6. A method for the manufacture of fringed fabric which comprises interweaving binder warpswith a plurality of layers of wefts separated by interlaid stufier warps, in forming the body ofthe fabric; interweaving wefts with the binder warps while leav ing the stuffer warps uninterlaid and iso-' lated beyond said body portion; and turning. back and securing upon the fabric body the weave so formed, thus leaving the stuffer warps loose and exposed beyond the body to form a fringe.

7. A method for the manufacture .of fringed chenille fabric which comprises interweavingbinder warps with a plurality of layers of wefts separated by inter-laid stuifer warps, in formingthe body of the fabric, with a chenille surface weft layer in the main portion of said body and a substituted facing weft in the retaining edging; interweaving such facing weft with the binder warps while leaving the stuffer warps uninterlaid and isolated beyond said body portion; and turning back and securing upon said retaining edgin the weave. so formed, thus leaving the stuifer warpsloose'and exposed beyond said edgin to form a fringe.

. In testimony whereo I have hereunto signed my name at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,this fourteenth day of January, 1919. I

DAVIDII STROUD, J [1 s.] witnesses" & I i

WM, J. THoMAs, JOHN C. BERGNER. 

